San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-06
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs


much patriotism at the capital.
The coroner has no jury to assist him
In his deliberations; from this time for
ward he wrestles unaided with the great
"stif' question.
MORE trouble brewing in the PittsbuTg
coke regions. One hundred and fifty OF
PInkertOn's detectives have gone in
there, and wherever they go they raise
"Heli on wheels"
The Texas Iron News Counsels mOder-
alton and publishes paragraphs on both
sides OF the prohibition question. Can
the Iron News hold opinions on both
sides OF that question?
The Victoria Advocate finds San An
tonic the very gate of paradise. 1t Is not
often that the Advocate does this city so
much Justice. The Advocate says !:
people do not go by San Antonio to get
to heaven" They start right there.
The good democrats who have raised
this luminosity over prohibition fall back
on Tilden's words, and quote, "we might
as well look for peace in hell rs harmony
in political contest" And yet, there
is no politics In prohibition.
The Castroville Anvil rings a sharp
remonstr6nce against three thousand
preachers sowing the tares OF prohibit
tion while the religious vineyard Is
choking with weeds.
THOSE Maxwell land grand settlers
are organizing to resist the occupation
of their lands. The rights of OCOupa-
tiOn under former decision of the gov
eminent at Washington, should be re-
spotted.
The jersey Lilly has been in this
country long enough TO appreciate its
divorce privileges. She will make a
California residence first, and when
legally domiciled will petition for di-
vOrce and thereafter remain in America.
The Beeville Bee is very busy, bust
ling Bee, no doubt, and well up in the
local honey business, but when it buzZes
around with the Idea under it's bonnet
that IL is endangering the wholesale
trade of San Antonio, it would be an act
Of charity to give it little fresh air.
GOTHAM, OvercrOwded, and unusually
cool with exceptional hot days, is alarm
ingly unhealthy. The mortality is lit
tie in excess Of two hundred daily. New
York is good city TO steer clear OF at
this time Of the year, and particularly
this time, this year.
ST LOUIS wholesalers complain Of dis
ordinations on the part of the Missouri
Pacific, which carries eXCUrsiOnists for
about $3.50 thousand miles and
charges the wholesalers $500 for thOus-
and mile tickets. Some OF those st.
Louis wholesalers who own the earth
would kick if they were being hung.
The color line has crossed the water,
and her majesty, Queen Victoria, of
Great Britain, Ireland and colonies, and
Empress Of India, gives separate
spread to her most gracious and queeDly
sisters Of the Hawaiian Islands. Even
the color OF royalty is being taken into
account.
The first effect OF prohibition is to de-
clare all license illegal. The second eff
iect. to allow free sale of intoXicants by
everyone who chooses to enter into the
business-beCause, there will be no laws
to suppress the sale until the legislature
meets, and the laws regulating by license
will be abrOgated by the amendment.
THERE was less powder burned in
Uncle Sans dOminiOns last Monday
than on any Fourth" since "FOurths'
were. The tales Of horrible maimings
and fires from cracker explosions are all
curtailed this year, thanks to wise NUM-
cipsl measures.
No more screens before saloon doors
says the wisdom of the great and i'm
mortal twentieth" Will some one of
that august body now rise and explain
whether door is screen or not? The
phraseOlOgy of their enactments leaves
TOO much TO the Imagination.
SAN ANTONIO is waiting, waiting.
waiting for the mandatory wagon to
come along and then 1--WE will all take q
ride" There is more solid business in
two or three good manufacturing estab-
lishments than in all the cries OF
Boom" that have been uttered in
Texas.
IT is not necessary to follow the pro-
hbitionists into the tOrIuOus ways of I'M
truth in order to make capital against
them. The grape crop of this year is
not affected by the amendment. Should
the amendment carry no manufacture OF
grape wine can be prevented until after
| the legislature meets, and the advice oil
the TeXark8na Times, to allow the
| grapes to rot on the vines, is i'll advised
The COtulla Ledger denies all author
| ship of the remark attributed to it, to
| he effect that the man in the moon
| holds his nose when passing over San
Antonio, and says-"NO such item, or
anything similar 10 it. ever appeared in
The columns OF this paper" The Ledger
man is absnlved and the recording AN
| gel will make the correction accord
ingly.
A MAN is very seldom fool on all sub
| iects. Henry George Is quite level
headed in his views on the Chinese re-
striction question. This country has
about as much race mixture to deal
with at present as she can prOfitably
look after. Keep the MOngOlians at
home. Ii may be a selfish policy. but it
10 based upon sound principle of self
preservation which is the law of nations
ns well as Of individuals.
The Texas prOhibitiOnists having run
out of Ammunition have recently shipped
cargo OF San Antonio eggs to the
country journals Of that persuasion, and
the way those eggs are doing duty for
arguments would astOnish a man not up
in the methods of the Cranfill crowd.
The lOayes and fishes of Galilee were
never multiplied as the prOhibitionists
have multiplied those eggs.
THE Paris News is authority for the
statement, editOrially, that 1.-THE editor
| Of the DsngeTtield Tidings is going crazy
about Miss LOttie Lyons" The News
man says 'this is not joke but news
If the Dangerfield fellow was to whallOp
the News man with COW skin he wOulC
ind 1t no joke either, and a level headed
community would say to the DangeriielC
instrument Of justice: "Well done, gOoC
and faithful servant"
BALDWIN, the ballOonist who jumped
from his mile high gas bag and cam
down to terra firma all serene under hi
parachute last "Fourth,"is a good ex
ample for the prOhibitionists TO TAX
warning by. He saved himself by